Stuart1971

Exactly correct... The wifi and the USB 3.0 share power on the RPI board, and are very close to each other, this was a design flaw, when one is in use it causes issue for the other, I swapped to a USB 3.0 wifi dongle that works three times faster than the built in one, and never had an issue since....cost around £12...

If you are using the USB 3.0 on the RPI, and the wifi at the same time, this is a known issue with them, you are best either to use a powered USB hub, plugged into one of the RPI ports, or an external wifi dongle instead of the built in wifi....also always use the 5ghz if using internal wifi and try it on Chanel 44...👍🏼

This is true, BUT the first thing the seller will say to PayPal is that you have to return the item and then they will refund, and that will be costly, good luck at getting that return postage cost back.. after you have returned and it’s proven to be returned PayPal will sort it... Aslo from a sellers point of view PayPal now do not refund there fees anymore, so if the seller does refund then they also have to refund the origonal sellers PayPal fee, this is also putting sellers off refunding via PayPal...I fell found of this a few weeks ago, as I did not know about it..😮

There is an excellent video on YouTube regards setting up backlash on a scope by a guy off this forum, @RayD his YouTube channel is “Simplified Astro” I followed it and it works a treat and a really simple but clever way to do it... One thing is that most backlash comes from the focuser and not the motor when you have a rack and pinion, I have 70 steps set as backlash compensation on my Tak FSQ85, and seems to work, but as has been said it needs to be pretty close for autofocus to work...👍🏼

Do you run it from your PC and just use the RPI as an INdI server or do you run all direct from the RPI over VNC or alike..?.

A lot of people think because software is free that it will be not so good or difficult to use, but I think Kstars / Ekos is the exception to that rule, I have used it for a few years, and would never use anything else, there are easy and hard ways to use, and once you figure out the easy ways then it’s superb, just open up your PC set up a profile in ekos for your drivers, and connect to your INdI server on the mount, and that does the rest with all the hardware...what could be simpler.....👍🏼👍🏼

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Yes I read that, but holding and moving up to 5kg smoothly, are two very different things....👍🏼

I see there is a new version of the ZWO EAF focus motor out, this one is just 5v so only needs one USB cable for both data and power....does anybody know if these are any good and powerful enough, as my experience with the older Feathertouch motors that run on 5v, is that they were pretty dire and only really worked fitted to the fine focus side of the Focuser....👍🏼

I think I see what you have done...you have both DST set...and UTC + 1 hour, and you don’t need both, you just need the DST set, and not UTC + 1 hour, 👍🏼👍🏼

Also the time on the above handset picture, is one hour out....🤔 it was 08:33 when you took the picture...and it not 09:33 ..and you took nearly an hour again... UTC plus one hour should show exact time, but yours is not...it’s as if your UTC time is an hour out....🤔🤔

With the mount in the position you show, turn power off, and loose clutches and move manually to correct position, then power up and before you do anything do a sync...this shows sort...👍🏼

Ok, all finished, brackets fitted and all working well.....

Yes, it’s the way log cabins are made, but this is about as small as they come....👍🏼

Well finally got around to starting the last couple of jobs, the interior floor and the hinged gallows brackets for the side to support the roof when open The floor consists of a waterproof / breathable membrane with 600mm square rubber interlocking tiles on the top. The brackets are made up and are 775mm x 825mm out of 4” x 3” tanalised timber and a piece left over from the shed used for the angled central pieces, and will be hinged to the sides of the shed with 3” fire door hinges, so they will fold away when not in use. Pictures to follow in a day or so, of them fitted

You posted the confused emoji, hence why I asked...?

Hello, and thanks much appreciated.... Sealed with a bead of silicon clear sealent, under the walls, but also the bottom of the walls were well treated before the build too, and I will have a separate 2” x 2” framed floor inside eventually, with 9mm ply and a membrane and rubber interlocking tiles on top...but that’s for another day...👍🏼

Thanks much appreciated...👍🏼 Yes the roof panels really a tad heavier than I thought, Approx 15kg each...but not as bad as if I had used felt...I can lift them from the front edge and man handle them quite easily all the way over...but I am 6’2” and 95kg....but I was limited with space, so a frame to hold a roll off roof was not really an option...

So why are you confused by my answer....?. Can I explain better maybe...?

Ah, ok I used ISO 800 all the time on my DSLR imaging but with a CLS LP filter to cut out the town glow....👍🏼

16m...you mean 16 minutes,...or seconds, as if 16 mins I would have thought the stars would be much more and brighter.... If you take say an exposure every minute for 1.5 hours and then say 20 dark frames of the same exposure length and then stacks the light and the darks together you would get something like this.... I did this with a canon 1000D unmodded camera on a tripod...

Yes deffo hot pixels, and very common on an uncooled camera, but as has been said, dark frames will remover no problem...👍🏼

yes it’s an apex I made as shown in one of the pictures, to the exact shape.. There is not at the moment, but it’s rare for the rain to move up hill over 5”...unless the wind was super strong, but we rarely get wind from that direction, and that side of the roof will be clamped down with clamps inside, so the two panels will be tight together with rubber against rubber....so I’m hoping all will be good....but I have an idea if there is an issue....👍🏼👍🏼

And a short video, but will post one with full opening when I get retainers fitted on the roof... 0DBF65DC-36CA-49FE-98B0-623B660A95BA.MOV

Pretty much got it finished now, roof panels rubbered up, and apex made up and fitted to the west facing roof panel, the barge boards are fixed to the shed rather than the roof panels, but the roof still overhangs by 3’ all round and has drip rails on the undersides, the hinges are superb and really heavy duty stainless steel 4” fire door hinges